Word: lusaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they found them. In the whole vast area, there are less than 400 miles of asphalt roads. Such railroads as exist bull their way through the bush in short, fitful spurts. But with startling frequency, in what was yesterday only a wilderness, such modern cities as Salisbury, Lusaka, Nairobi and Accra hive and hum in a fury of 20th century commerce...
...Northern Rhodesia, our Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes was heading home last week after bouncing some 5,000 miles through Mozambique, the Rhodesias and into the Belgian Congo in a battered Mercury. He stopped off in Lusaka (pop. 60,000) to listen to the black natives' saucepan radio and visit the unique Central African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through...
...Back in Lusaka, an astonished official commented on Hughes's threeday, thousand-mile detour: "All that trouble just to talk to a bunch of native crackpots? You must be bloody well 'round the bend...
...Limpopo and Congo Rivers, more than half a million primitive Africans have found a new, fascinating way to kill time. Every night in their mud huts they listen to their kabulo ka kwa-bamakani (small piece of iron that catches words in air). Their radios are tuned to Lusaka's Central African Broadcasting Station, and their favorite show is a request program called Zimene Mwa Tifunsa (Those You Have Asked For). They also have their favorite record, Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whisky, a lachrymose ditty in hillbilly style...
Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...